On Sunday 21 December 2008 18:26:09 Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
As you seem to be doing well getting your head round KDE4, is there somewhere you would recommend to help get up to speed on it?
I've ran a whole number of versions, but almost always for 'testing' purposes in early 4.0 times, recently again with 4.1.3 in the OS| 11.1-RC1. It could be due to virtually always running buggy pre-release versions, but when I've tried to do things like reconfigure, it's not behaved as expected. I do really like the KDE4 version of Konqi, but it's just one part of desktop, and Firefox 3 performs rather well, and without change (or my better understanding) I'm going to end up finding a Dolphin-Free desktop.
I don't know exactly where you're having problems, but Userbase has plenty of general advice, see http://userbase.kde.org/An_introduction_to_KDE Since Plasma is the most obvious difference to KDE 3, there's a very detailed set of FAQs here: http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma Otherwise if you can describe how it didn't do what you wanted, I can try to explain. I guess you found the "Default Applications" module in Personal Settings where you can change the default File Manager away from Dolphin?
I've used all kinds of DE's over years, from Apollo, Sunview, Suntools, Sun Broken Windows, Motif, KDE1, GNOME 1, KDE 2, KDE 3, Windows blah blah.. and KDE 4 is the first that has me looking for a manual.
We are /trying/ to make things more intuitive, but we're also trying to do a lot more than those desktops did, so things like the Zooming UI and defining different Activities are in uncharted territory and will take a while longer to mature. I'm talking to as many people as possible about their experiences and passing that info back to the Plasma team. Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org